Best Sideward Poems

Life is full of chances
But the number is not known,
Careful steps and sideward glances
Voice our fear of the unknown.

You've never played this game before
You do not know the rules,
Ant through each hand you’ll learn to name
The aces and the fools.

So when you reach the road...

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Kentucky Girl

Passing meadows lush with grass
Rail fences painted white
Stretching off toward distant hills
I observed an remarkable sight

She was a Kentucky girl
Bred from champion stock
Proud and beautiful to see
From head down to fetlock

Her body was magnificent
Sixteen hands in size
A shiny, rippling chestnut coat
White blaze between her...

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Old Traveler steps out mighty proud
As we watch him paw and prance.
His rider, sitting poker straight,
Casts not a sideward glance.
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ITTY BITTY SONG

Snip snip red hair
A pretty pretty long
Snip snip auburn light
While I sing this
Itty bitty song

Reveals a pale moon
So round o round
It reflects the pool
O round howdy hum
I hardly hear a sound

Thistles and cordial bristles
Grow out and downward
Flow in red sea waves
With an itch...

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Ascending toward triumph-pinnacles
We tread circumspectly along life’s race
Optimizing God’s wondrous love and grace
Overcoming temptation tentacles.

Trekking upward mountainous faith-venture
We're replenished fully midst fatigue-bouts
To vanquish distracting doubts’ whereabouts
And prevail beyond weariness’ torture.

Pressing forward by Sovereign guidance
Defying fall and frustrations’ anguish
Serenely, we hope never to languish
While reaching others...

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It’s Autumn weather, geese fly by,;
Autumn rust,red,gold,so gay

Drystone walls edging fields,

Apples gathered,holly berries

Flash so brightly

Look like flowers

Sun shines sideways,shadows long

Of trees appear.I dwell among

Woods of gentle beeches sing

Swaying with the sideward wind.

See their roots, all intertwined.

Feel their geometry in the mind.

Look up now into the...

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The 80's Became The Present Again

On the coast of Oahu
here, I was on a beach bus,
circling a sweet picture
in my mind,
white sands, blue seas, palms,
rolling all along
in a candy store.
It was a beautiful beach setting,
a beautiful scenic bus ride ...
how can it get any better?
Three...

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it only takes a sideward 
glance 
to see you wave; my 
peripathetic mind 
takes in that sight of you. 
pain is but a stroke of luck 
and the decency of the hour 
id just a sideward glance that reminds 
me of my nature 
today i...

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Before the mid night,
       Under the elms beside my cottage
 I  stood still wet by the gentle falling rain, watching it drenching the nature reserves.
Where the gentle breeze from the cold touching my eyes lovely, closing in the...

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This was to be their first, grand journey.
Who would dare believe?
Sarah Maple, and Ol’ Bear
Her special, robot teddy! 

Both, strapped inside Securely;
Await a lifetime ride;
Her heart is jumping, as  
Her nine-ish, choc’ late eyes grow wide.

Fear mixes with Excitement;
Humility with pride;
When she realizes she’s
Histories...

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